''
VoL 3, INo. 11_ Lincoln 3, Nebraska Thursday, December 9, 1948
Harvard, Yale Elect 7 ^'v
Football Captains for w ,
"' .Varsity Manager At Harvard
Complied from ANP.
NEW YORK. (ANP). Levi Jackson, star halfback at
Yale university was unanimously elected captain of the 1949
Bulldog football team. Thus for the first time in 70 years
of sports history at Yale, Jackson becomes the first colored
youth so honored.
One day later it was announced by Harvard that Howie
Houston, splendid brown-skinned gridder was chosen by his
admiring teammates, ’49 football captain. What’s more,
Harvard students elected 20-year-old Frank Jones, the first
colored student football manager in the Crimson’s long
history. Houston is 22 years of age, as is Levi Jackson.
oiyic success rate s jacxson Alger
Levi Jackson, the son of a fra
ternity house chef, is considered a
“son of the campus” and is the
first native son to captain the
Yale team in 17 years,
jfc# During the past season he has
played halfback for the Bulldogs
and did a credible job, although
the Blue had five losses over
against only four wins. When
the team got together last week
to pick next year’s captain, Jack
son was tabbed for the job.
At the end of the 1947 season,
he was badly injured, and fear
had been expressed by many at
that time that his football days
had come to an end. But this year
he was back in there pitching in
the back field. When votes were
counted, performance paid off for
Jackson.
On and off of the Yale campus,
Jackson’s new spot was news, even
more than when he carried the
Yale pigskin to a 26-13 victory
over Brown last September. Tele
grams poured in and editorials
appeared in many papers through
out the nation praising the Ivy
Leaf team for its action.
Harvard’s Jones From
•Who’s Who” Family
*Y| CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (ANP).
Jones is the youngest of four chil
dren of President and Mrs. David
D. Jones of Bennett college of
Greensboro, N. C. Along with Levi
Jackson, newly elected captain of
Yale's football team, he is the
t only other Negro to gain such a
high post with a Yale or Harvard
, grid squad.
Jones gained experience for his
new position by serving as man
ager of the freshman team and
assistant varsity manager of the
squad at Harvard.
Before attending Harvard he at
tended Phillips academy at And
over. Upon graduation there he
was class orator.
His parents are one of the few
Negro couples listed in “Who’s
Who in America.” His oldest
brother, David D. Jones, jr., will
graduate from the Harvard law
school in January. His sister, Dr.
Frances Jones Bonner, is a spe
I cialist in psychiatry in Boston.
Marian Anderson
Bucks Met Opening
NEW YORK. (ANP). Fifteen
hundred music lovers heard Ma
rian Anderson sing with the
“Little Orchestra society" Mon
day night at Town Hall. Con
sidering the fact that the famed
Metropolitan Opera opened its
64th season the same night with
af “gala" performance” of a fa
vorite opera with well publicized
• .stars, this was no small accom
iMpishment. Other musical events
■Befer to the Met but weeks ago,
Hthe Anderson concert was adver
Bfiscd as “Sold out" and disap
Bpointed fans promised another
^Boncert in the more spacious
Uprarnegie hall.
Mrs. E. S. Brown
Has Successful
Senior Recital
Wednesday, Dec. 1, Mrs. Eu
genia Simms Brown gave her
senior recital in the Temple on
the University of Nebraska
campus. Mrs. Brown was ac
companied at the piano by Miss
Florentine Crawford, sophomore
music major. Her group of four
songs included:
Amarilli .Caccini
Apres Un Reve . Saure
By The Fireside .Warren
Let All My Life Be Music .
.Spross
Sharing the program with her
was Embree Raines, trombonist
Hpand as guests, the University
Madrigal Singers.
Mrs. Brown is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Simms of
1947 “S” street "and the wife of
Mr. Obbie Brown, professor and
head of the department of chem
istry at Wiley college, Texas. She
is a member of the AKA sorority
and of Quinn Chapel church
where she is director of religious
education and directs the junior
choir. Her work with the Urban
League Girl’s Glee Club is well
known to many Lincolnites who
have heard the group on a num
ber of occasions.
At the university she is a stu
dent of Miss Alma Wagner.
CROP Goal Neared
As Final Date For
Relief Train Loom
LINCOLN.—Gage county is
the first Nebraska county to re
port complete collection of its
goal for the Nebraska Goodwill
Train, state CROP director
Dwight Bell announced today.
Gage county workers under the
direction of county chairman
Harry Foster of Ellis have col
lected a total of $11,936 in cash
and food in kind with the pros
pect of several hundred dollars
more according to Foster.
At present market prices, this
represents six carloads of food
which was the Gage county
Goodwill Train goal. State di
rector Dell said that several
other counties are nearing their
goals and that many will have
satisfactorily reached them by
December 4. The Goodwill train
is scheduled to leave Lincoln to
morrow, Dec. 10th.
Michigan Tabs Negro
Orval W. Johnson, Negro track
star from Detroit, Thursday was
elected president of the Univer
sity of Michigan senior class in
the literary college. Classmates
gave him a 2-1 margin over Pete
Elliott, football, basketball and
golf star.
Senator Capper
Given Award
For Tolerance
SEN. ARTHUR CAPPER
—Courtesy The Lincoln Journal.
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Just
before Sen. Arthur Capper closed
his office here after 29 years as
senior senator from Kansas, the
Council Against Intolerance pre
sented him with the original paint
ing of its 1948 Seal of Tolerance.
The presentation took place at his
office on Friday afternoon, Dec. 3.
Senator Capper, who has been
co-chairman of the council since
1940, is being honored in recog
nition of his long service to the
cause of democratic rights in
America.
Among the members of the
council present at the ceremony
were Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune,
John Brophy, director of Indus
trial Union Councils of the C.I.O.;
Congresswoman Helen Gahagan
Douglas of California; Sen. Theo
dore F. Greene of Rh^je Island;
William Green, president of the
A F.L.; Congressman George E.
Outland of California; Sen. Lev
erett Saltonstall of Massachusetts;
Father Maurice S. Sheehy of the
Catholic University of America,
and Sen. Robert F. Wagner of
New York.
Dr. Henry A. Atkinson, co
chairman of the Council Against
Intolerance, made the presenta
tion.
Frats By-Pass
Racial Issue
Until Next Year
NEW YORK. (ANP). The Na
tional Infraternity conference vot
ed last week to bypass a stand on
the racial question until next year.
It did recommend, however, that
fraternities would do better to se
lect members on the basis of char
acter rather than race, religion
or color.
The conference voted to send
the the issue back to each mem
ber-group of its 59 national frater
nities for discussion until next
year.
The racial issue was brought to
the front when the Amherst col
lege chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi
recently admitted Thomas W.
Gibbs, its first Negro member,
and the first colored man admitted
to a white fraternity in the col
lege’s 127-year-old history.
Upon presenting its resolution
to member-groups the conference
said, “The fraternity system will
flourish better if the character
and personality of the individual
are regarded as paramount, rather
than his race, color, religion or
nationality.”
Lancaster Young Democrats
Favor FEP Laws For Nebraska
Lancaster County Young Democrats went on record
last Thursday as favoring cooperation with the Lincoln
Social Action Council in obtaining passage of a state fair
employment practice bill in the coming session of the Uni
cameral legislature.
The Council is now busy collecting factual data with
which to support its premises that discriminatory economic
practices are inconsistent with American ideals and also
Negro Churchmen
Number 150 at
National Council
CINCINNATI. (ANP). The
various Negro denominations
are well represented at the 40th
anniversary meeting of the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of
Christ in America, which opened
a three-day session in Hotel Gib
son here Dec. 1. Twenty-five
denominations in the United
States and Canada are repre
sented at the conference.
Highest number of delegates
among the colored denominations
are from the National Baptist
convention, U. S. A. Inc. Among
the 80 present are such well
known religious leaders as the
Rev. D. V. Jemison, Selma, Ala.;
W. H. Jernagin, Washington;
A. M. Townsend, Nashville; Dr.
Benjamin E. Mays, Atlanta; and
Miss Nannie H. Burroughs,
Washington.
Next in line is the *AME
church, represented by Bishops
A. J. Allen, Cleveland; W. A.
Fountain, Sr., Atlanta; Joseph
Gomez, Cleveland; J. A. Gregg,
Kansas City, Kans.; Reverdy C.
Ransom, Wilberforce, O.; F. M.
Reid, St. Louis; and D. Ormonde
Walker, Buffalo; the Rev. A.
Wayman Ward, Chicago; Mrs.
Sadie T. M. Alexander, Philadel
phia; Presidents Charles H. Wes
ley, Wilberforce, O., and Miller
F. Whittaker, Orangeburg, S. C.
The denomination has 22 dele
gates.
There are* also 13 represent
atives of the CME church. In
the group are Dr. Channing H.
Tobias, director, Phelps-Stokes
fund, New York; President W. A.
Bell, Birmingham; and Bishops
R. A. Carter, Chicago and J. A.
Hamlett, Kansas City, Kans.
The Methodist church has
Bishops Willis A. King, Monro
via, Liberia; Robert N. Brooks,
New Orleans; Alexander P.
Shaw, Baltimore; and G. Brom
ley Oxnam, New York, among its
huge delegation. There is also
the Rev. W. T. Handy from New
Orleans,
The total number of Negro
delegates is estimated at about
150.
U.N. Proposal to
Give So. Eritrea
To Ethiopians
PARIS. (ANP). Ethiopia will
be given Southern Eritrea out
right under the proposed United
Nations plan, on which voting
has been 4e^erred until next
year.
In the division of the Italian
African colonies and possessions,
the portion handed Ethiopia will
also include Assab and Asmara.
Ethiopians have contended all
along that this territory belonged
to them thru ethnic and other
connections. Strong opposition
had developed against returning
the territory to Ethiopia and the
disposal of the disputed territo
ries was a part of the recent
presidential campaign. Mr.
Dewey is reported to have said
he favored returning the colonies
to Italy to be administered under
a United Nations trusteeship.
creates an un
due burden on
the majority of
the people. Sug
gestions for the
proposed bi 11
have come from
a number of
Lincoln organi
zations, whfch
Don Morrow is still in the
—Courtesy The
Lincoln Journal. Writing stage. It
may be that existing machinery
can be used in eliminating dis
criminatory employment practices
if given the proper authority.
The Young Democrats, of which
Mr. Don Morrow is Chairman,
have identified themselves with
other progressive movements in
past designed to make Democracy
live. Morrow said that his organ
ization would stand behind a good
FEP Bill this coming year.
Methodists Name
Two to Top Posts
CHICAGO. (ANP). The Rev.
T. R. W. Harris of New Orleans
and Mrs. Mary T. McKenzie of
Jacksonville, Fla., will be serv
ing the next four years on one
of the most important commit
tees of the Methodist Church.
Charged by the general confer
ence with making an impartial
study of all boards and agencies
of the denomination, the new
group, which has just been or
ganized for the quadrennium, is
to be known as Church Survey
commission.
“Finding ways and means to
reduce duplication and over
lapping and to increase the ef
ficiency and economy of the op
erations of our general boards,
commissions and service organi
zations” is the purpose of the
commission as stated in the 1948
Discipline of the church.
Bishop Ralph Magee of the
Chicago area was elected chair
man of the 26-member commis
sion; Bishop Clare Purcell, Bir
mingham, vice-chairman, and
John R. Van Sickle, prominent
layman and newspaper publisher
of Rockford, 111., secretary.
Rev. Harris, who is superin
tendent of the New Orleans dis
trict in the Louisiana conference,
will also serve on the executive
committee, which included, in
addition, the Rev. Walter Briggs,
Des Moines, la.; Judge V. M.
Mouser, Columbia, la.; and Mrs.
Leon Peel, Minneapolis.
AlphaKappaAlpha
Initiates Five
Saturday evening, December 3,
the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
held an initiation for five coeds
in the Urban League rooms. Mrs.
Robbie T. Davis, Omaha, Regional
Director for the sorority, presided
over the activities.
Those initiated were Florentine
Crawford, Omaha; Jeanne Malone,
Lincoln; Nelda Artiste, Philip
pines; Nadine Hancock, Omaha;
and Robbie Powell, Lincoln.
Following the rites, in which 15
sorors participated, the initiates
served a delicious chicken dinner
to their older sisters.